hellish.

1. Extremely unpleasant, oppressive, or tormenting.

2. Relating to hell or its imagined conditions.

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Words that belong together

• hellish noise
• a hellish ordeal

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The hellish noise made every attempt at conversation futile.

A hellish ordeal had left the survivors unwilling to describe the passage.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more hellish; superlative most hellish where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.